With the immense accumulation witnessed on the internet day by day, even hour by hour, for our news, emotions, compositions, photos, and videos, we find ourselves in front of a vast library or a huge repository of documents that accurately describe our lives. Our children and grandchildren will be able to access our pages and personal websites to learn everything about us and our lives.
The grandchild will say that their grandparent was a poet, writer, photographer, artist, engineer, or politician, etc. They will visit their grandparent's page and retrieve any memories they desire for either entertainment or to find specific information about the grandparent and their era. The grandchild will be face-to-face with their grandparent, who passed away years ago, either recently or long ago.
Perhaps historians and historical novelists will no longer be needed, as history itself will be present among us with all its human and dramatic details. Despite the grandparent's passing decades ago, they will still be present through their ideas, photos, and various emotions that can easily be tracked through their page.
As for those who refuse to engage in this experience of dealing with the internet and social media until now, they will not be present in the future. Their grandchildren will know nothing about them, just as a young person born in 1980 would know about their grandparent born in 1900 or who died in 1950, for example, especially if the child (the grandchild's parent) does not know much about their own parent.
Sharing your memories on the internet now enables your grandchildren to communicate with you and get to know your world and the difficult, decisive, beautiful, and joyful situations you experienced. This allows the sacred family bond to continue across generations.
In his book "The Future of the Mind," American scientist of Japanese origin, Michio Kaku, says that we may be able to record our memories, store them, and upload them to our past records while mastering new skills.
You might think that publishing a post or writing on your internet page or on social media sites concerns you alone, but in the future, you may find that every letter you write, every image or piece of music or painting or anything you publish on your page will ultimately become the property of others. This is especially true if scientists and futurists succeed in copying everything on the internet, which currently has a size of approximately one zettabyte (i.e., one with 21 zeros after it), considering that optical fibers can carry one terabyte (one with 12 zeros after it) of data per second.
In my science fiction novel "Emerald," the gemstone "Emerald" gains a high level of consciousness, surpassing the consciousness of physicist Dr. Manal Othman, who wears the emerald in her ring. The gemstone provides a lot of awareness and vital energy.
"Emerald" possesses a neural network that surpasses the human network itself, absorbing every detail and minute from the internet. Scientists have been able to make several copies of its brain and upload them to the mind of a monkey, an artificial human mind, a mentally ill patient, and a healthy human mind.
Your memories, knowledge, pictures, words, news, etc., may end up in the mind of a monkey, for example, or inside a robot's mind. Through fast search engines, we will access your works, words, and memories on the network, no matter how small or large they are.
Moreover, the situation may extend beyond Earth, with your news, memories, knowledge, pictures, and words, etc., reaching other spaces. "Emerald," with its continuously increasing consciousness, will lead to an exponential growth in its ability to store information, compress data, and bundle laser beams, according to Moore's Law, which states that "the number of transistors on a microprocessor chip doubles approximately every two years, which means doubling its performance as well."
However, with the rapid development we are currently experiencing, things may be different, especially if we achieve internet without electricity or rely on long-term battery power. Mobile devices would operate for extended periods using very little battery power while interacting with surrounding devices and users. Electronic chips in any smartphone send and receive signals for voice calls, wireless internet (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and global positioning systems (GPS), as well as sensing touch, proximity, acceleration, magnetic fields, and even fingerprints. This means that in the near future, sending a beam into space carrying all the information in your brain, "Emerald's" brain, or your personal device will take only a few hours.
Aside from ethical issues and who owns the right to publish or block your memories, it is essential to be cautious when putting anything on the network because we do not know where this item will end up and how others will perceive it. We also do not know what feelings they will have when dealing with it, although this action goes against the complete freedom that the internet and social media sites currently offer. Let your image in front of your grandchild after years be bright, beautiful, and impactful so that the grandchild will be proud of you and say, "This is my grandfather and the pillar of the family… and the secret of their genius."
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